Speaker 1: There's some shows coming to Austin want to tell you about.
Speaker 1: But first, or so, tell everybody about the photo you
Speaker 1: got from your friend Jennifer, who we call Jack.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she sent me a picture of Leslie. Do you
Speaker 3: remember downtown Leslie? Leslie Cochrane or Leslie Cochrane, the man
Speaker 3: with the beard and the hair lived downtown dressed like
Speaker 3: a woman or high heels. Became our unofficial front if
Speaker 3: you will, Yeah, unofficial mayor. She sent me a picture
Speaker 3: of him on his bike, dressed all sexy and said
Speaker 3: he would have turned seventy four this year.
Speaker 4: Was she tight with him or something?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: I think she just.
Speaker 3: Ran across this photo, just ran across this info and
Speaker 3: sent it in.
Speaker 1: For New Austin Nights. Leslie was an icon in Austin.
Speaker 1: He was the I mean in the kindest possible way
Speaker 1: I can say.
Speaker 4: He was a village idiot, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But everyone loved him right then. Everyone loved him. And
Speaker 1: he would wear pink thong and stand on the corner
Speaker 1: of six in Congress and he had a tierra on
Speaker 1: often a leopard print type of blow and high heels.
Speaker 5: Songs and a short top and ran for mayor and
Speaker 5: I believe got second in the mayoral election one year,
Speaker 5: so he would have been seventy four years old.
Speaker 4: Take speaking of Austin characters, go ahead, Jimmy, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: No, I was just saying he was a fixture everywhere
Speaker 2: downtown and was very open, like getting pictures with him.
Speaker 2: And do you remember it used to be able to
Speaker 2: I know you could buy him at Waterloo back in
Speaker 2: the day. It was like, you know, the little dress
Speaker 2: up kits.
Speaker 4: M hm, you know, like where you take a lardboard doll.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a Leslie Changes outfit kit that he
Speaker 2: was selling because somebody stole a bunch of them from
Speaker 2: his warehouse ones.
Speaker 4: Oh I remember that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: But he would you know, people would tip him. The
Speaker 2: would get photos with him and tip him. That's how
Speaker 2: he got by financially.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's quite a character.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Austin characters, and Tones is celebrating its fiftieth
Speaker 1: anniversary all this summer. Did you guys know that Cliff
Speaker 1: at Anton's joint started nineteen seventy five? I believe the
Speaker 1: original was on Guadaloop, wasn't it.
Speaker 4: JB.
Speaker 2: Man, I forget, I've lost track. I think it's moved
Speaker 2: five or six times. It's been on Fifth Street a
Speaker 2: couple of times. It's it was in East Austin Ferlimentations.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was on.
Speaker 2: It was on Guadaloop near campus when I was in
Speaker 2: school in the late eighties.
Speaker 4: Ire original. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Our daughter was out the other day and texted Sandy,
Speaker 3: I'm at Antone's and I was like, I don't even
Speaker 3: know where that is now, Like she was at.
Speaker 1: The record store. Yeah, yeah, that's on which is record
Speaker 1: Yeah right. Anton's fiftieth celebration. They've got Soul Hat playing
Speaker 1: on Saturday night, and they have it's a twenty one
Speaker 1: and up show, a super ticket which includes a commemorative
Speaker 1: key chain that grants you access to all anniversary shows,
Speaker 1: plus drink tickets, Cliffy Dogs.
Speaker 4: I'd be a little leery of.
Speaker 1: A Cliffy dog, if you know what I mean, And
Speaker 1: a fiftieth poster and other merchandise that's happening at Antone's. Also,
Speaker 1: Blue October is playing at the Moody Amphitheater on Saturday night,
Speaker 1: if you want to check that out. And finally two
Speaker 1: shows this weekend. Yeah, they'll probably blend in pretty well here.
Speaker 1: But Fish is doing two shows at the Movie Center
Speaker 1: this weekend. So that's a band that people follow like
Speaker 1: they did The Grateful Dead. They travel to see them,
Speaker 1: and you'll see seventy year old guys that have been
Speaker 1: fans for twenty years that still follow them.
Speaker 2: Around, and a lot of girls in hippie dresses just
Speaker 2: on hie as a kite.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but here's the thing I was thinking about that.
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, I think a lot of
Speaker 1: the Fish bands when they go let's say they go
Speaker 1: to Akron, Ohio, they really stand out in Akron and
Speaker 1: they are kind of superstars and they're different and they're
Speaker 1: weird and Akron. Right, Dude, in Austin, you look like
Speaker 1: everybody else typical Fish fan.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you're not.
Speaker 1: Really, You're not really standing out too much, is what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So anyway, those are just some shows that
Speaker 1: are happening this weekend in Austin. I will not be
Speaker 1: attending any of them, although if I had to choose
Speaker 1: one of them, it would be the Blue October Show.
Speaker 4: Yeah, which would be cool me too. Tby, have you
Speaker 4: been to the Moody Amphitheater. I've been, Yeah, I've been.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's get them straight, there's the Moody the Moody Center.
Speaker 2: The Moody Center is the big one, but basketball right,
Speaker 2: the Moody Center is the hoops one. Yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: and then the Moody Ampathy that's the outdoor one, now correct.
Speaker 2: I have not been to the outdoor one. I've been
Speaker 2: to the one in the w many times. I haven't
Speaker 2: been to the one which in Waterloo Park.
Speaker 4: I have not been. I've seen it. It looks amazing.
Speaker 1: They did an amazing job with it all the way around,
Speaker 1: even the whole city block that it takes up our
Speaker 1: two blocks, everything around that still looks really, really really cool.
Speaker 1: So if you haven't seen a show at the Moody Amphitheater,
Speaker 1: it's a perfect spot for it too. In downtown Austin.
Speaker 1: You didn't think there's you don't think there's that much
Speaker 1: room for an amphitheater, but there is. Somehow they find room,
Speaker 1: kind of like they do on I thirty five and
Speaker 1: Mopak in three sixty they managed to invent land to
Speaker 1: make them late.
Speaker 4: That little park.
Speaker 2: I mean that's Waller Creek and they've been trying to
Speaker 2: clean up Waller Creek for years, and that's a big
Speaker 2: step and they're doing a lot of improvements down to
Speaker 2: where I don't have you guys been down on the
Speaker 2: hiking bike trail in the last I don't know, six months.
Speaker 3: No, No, I can't remember the last time I was
Speaker 3: down there.
Speaker 2: They've done a lot because Waller Creek goes right right
Speaker 2: by Rainy and all of that, so they've been they've
Speaker 2: been doing a lot to clean that up because that's
Speaker 2: just been an ice. Sorry, they talk been saying forever. It's, oh,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be like a riverwalk, Like do we really
Speaker 2: even want that in Austin? Would you want in San
Speaker 2: Antonio like riverwalk in Austin? I don't think I would. Yeah, yeah, Well,
Speaker 2: those those trails there because there's a lot to go
Speaker 2: from downtown up into Shoal Creek and those those have
Speaker 2: been heavily habitated by the homeless. So it's you wouldn't
Speaker 2: it's a little dicey right now, enter at your own risk.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah,